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Spiegel & Grau
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
Featuring: Ellis Hyde; Madelline Hyde; Hank
ISBN: 0385523238
EAN: 9780385523233
Kindle: B00P5557I0
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In this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for
Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for
creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water’s Edge is
a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young
woman’s awakening as she experiences the devastation of
World War II in a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands. After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year’s Eve
party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her
husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a
former army colonel who is already ashamed of his son’s
inability to serve in the war. When Ellis and his best
friend, Hank, decide that the only way to regain the
Colonel’s favor is to succeed where the Colonel very
publicly failed—by hunting down the famous Loch Ness
monster—Maddie reluctantly follows them across the Atlantic,
leaving her sheltered world behind.
The trio find themselves in a remote village in the Scottish
Highlands, where the locals have nothing but contempt for
the privileged interlopers. Maddie is left on her own at the
isolated inn, where food is rationed, fuel is scarce, and a
knock from the postman can bring tragic news. Yet she finds
herself falling in love with the stark beauty and subtle
magic of the Scottish countryside. Gradually she comes to
know the villagers, and the friendships she forms with two
young women open her up to a larger world than she knew
existed. Maddie begins to see that nothing is as it first
appears: the values she holds dear prove unsustainable, and
monsters lurk where they are least expected.
As she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, Maddie
becomes aware not only of the dark forces around her, but of
life’s beauty and surprising possibilities.
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